Pilot errors were to blame for a TransAsia Airways plane crash in Taipei last year that killed 43 people, Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council has found.
Investigators pointed to the two pilots' failure to follow flight procedure and a number of mistakes caused by ineffective communication between them as the main causes of the accident, the report says.
The crash could have been prevented if the pilots had responded properly to a series of contributing problems, including an engine fault, it adds in a report released on Thursday.
The TransAsia flight GE235 crashed into the Keelung River on February 4, 2015, less than three minutes after taking off from Taipei Songshan Airport, which is located 5.4 kilometres from the crash site.
The aircraft was travelling from Taipei to the island of Kinmen off mainland China with 53 passengers and five crew members on board when the crash occurred.
Just 15 people survived the accident.
The final report by the ASC reinforces findings released in July 2015 that an engine fault triggered a series of pilot errors that eventually crashed the aircraft.
"The flight crew did not perform the documented abnormal and emergency procedures to identify the failure and implement the required corrective actions," the report says.
Recommendations in the report include calls for TransAsia to conduct a review of its flight crew training programs.
In July 2014, another TransAsia plane crashed on Taiwan's outlying Penghu island, killing 48 people, after the pilots were unable to find the runway seconds before they were due to land.
